Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 23:00:47 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: gecko@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 238482] www/firefox: 67.0_3,1 print pre-formatting is HORRIBLE Message-ID: <bug-238482-21738-fWMsSkOmwv@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-238482-21738@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-238482-21738@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238482 --- Comment #10 from Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg-freebsd@tristatelogic.com> --- Thank god for Google. I was just now able to find the proper solution/workaround for this problem here: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/firefox-fonts-jagged-and-ugly.63964/ The command line: cd /usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d && ln -s ../conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf appears to resolve the problem/issue, at least for me, at least on this one system. Given that I know, and knew, nothing whatever about either fonts or these various/numerous FreeBSD font configuration files, I am quite sure that I would not have been able to even guess the above command line in a thousand years if someone else had not already written it down for me. (And I suspect that is probably true also of the majority of FreeBSD users.) Fortunately, this was/is a problem that SEVERAL other people have already complained about, in the past, on the FreeBSD X.org forum (see thread above), and thus, I was able to find the proper fix/workaround. It remains unfathomable to me however, as to why this problem hasn't been or can't just be fixed, once and for all, by the relevant maintainers. (At this moment I don't know if this needs a Firefox-specific fix or if it needs fixing in the xorg package/port. Either way, it is obvious that fixing the problem properly will not require anything much in the way of new engineering, so there seems to be little excuse not to fix the problem. Even Section 5.5.1 of the Handbook says right up front that the default xorg fonts are awful!) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug.
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